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Delano

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  1. You don't know what you're talking about when it comes to statistics. So I can't entertain this monologue.
  2. This isn't quite right. Vision isn't like a camera. Visual perception can be effected by suggestion. Also we have a blind spot in our eyes where the light enters. However you brain fills in the missing scenery.
  3. There are two subtle ponts in your response. I am using uncommon knowledge which you may not be Cognizant. You are assuming I am wrong when you haven't understood what I said. Which circles back to my other point. It only took you a day to realise the statement I made was correct. That's a good turn around time This is almost impossible to do and not get caught. No I just have more of a dislike of ignorance. Yes for some people that is the case. A lot of instances before I post something il do a couple of searches to understand an issue from more than one perspective. So I have learnt a bit from some of the questions posted in the forum.
  4. More importantly if there is a hole in the boat would you know what to do, in order to not sink? This is where having some knowledge is helpful other than observation.
  5. I trust numbers more than I trust people's observations, since I can interrogate the numbers and find the truth. Most studies are done by more than one group. People are often ignorant or resistant to facts. Surely you can relate to this statement, intimately. Accuracy is about being correct. Precision is more about the level of detail. An example. Having a scale that is more than 95 percent accurate that only measure weight to the tenths of a pound. Is better than a scale that measure to the hundredth of a pound but is 90% accurate. The variation of the second scale(accuracy) nullifies it's precision. Since the actual values varies from the true value by 10%. Statistical studies will tell you the sample size, how the sample was collected, it's correlating of strength of the relationship between the variables. You can also see how much the sample is a representative sample by looking at non parametric tests. Which can be applied to any sample. So in this instance your observations about numbers don't have as much validity as my analysis of the same. Full disclosure I am not a statistician, however I have a faculty with numbers and analysing data. To use your example . Not all holes will sink about. It depends on the size and where the hole is located and the type of boat. Which is something that requires observation and specialised knowledge. Which a mathematician, an engineer or some fluent with fluid mechanics would be more likely to correctly assess. It's important for me to understand the limits of what I know. You are not so constrained.
  6. You are making assumptions about something that I know about and you do not. I find information in numbers. I was a statistics tutor in University in both the Mathematics and Business school. Plus I have been paid to do statistical work. In statistics you are trying to convert data into information. Accuracy is more important than precision.p No that is not an issue. Since any proper analysis will state their methodology. Again it is useful to have some knowledge about the subject your discussing in order to have an informed position. There are things that can be done to squeeze the numbers, however that's where analysis comes in handy. I'll give you an example. I was doing an analysis for a PhD candidate. I not only could see trends in the data which were corroborated by my professor. I also suggested changing the scale so it could be more descriptive. I did another analysis for a consulting group. One of the participants write my clients college statistics book. One of the presenters hot ripped a new one by nthe statistician. However my analysis was fine and went o to be included in a study done for the National Endowment for the Arts. I have other examples but those should make point to a rational thinking individual. The last five years I have been using numbers to qualify moments in time. Which isn't something that is easily done either by analysis or observation. As far as I know I am the only Astrologers who has these techniques. In addition they are objectively effective.
  7. I have found statistics and numbers to be more informative than personal observations. If approached with minimal bias numerical analysis is illuminating. Statistics used to be my hobby. And it not easy to do your own research, and data collection is even harder. There are certain rules or parameters that have to be met or followed when gathering data. If certain criteria is met you have a biased sample that doesn't represent the population being analysed. The cool thing about statics is even if you don't have a normal sample set you can still perform analysis of the data. Averages Medians and Modes can be quite infomative. In addition looking at data graphically can show you some trends. However they may only apply to you have collected, if it is not a representative sample. I am sure you have heard of the Gallup polls.
  8. Science is saying Schrodinger's cat is both alive and dead. Until you turn on the light.
  9. I am Astrologer but I don't own the territory
  10. Let them eat rice cakes
  11. What your take on the egg crisis the related smuggling of eggs. What will the powers that be do to solve this issue. Breakfast and dessert food are going to get pricey.
  12. I think another issue is llack of social connections. We had parirs and birthday parties at home and we visited other relatives and friends at home. Now lots of birthdays both adult and children don't take place at home.
  13. Women have historically been better at maintaining social connections than men Who liberated more slaves than Harriet Tubman. Who did Huey Newtown put in charge when he went to prison .Rosa Parks was the face of the movement. I would also say that women are more involved in church than men. I heard that if you want to improve a society give the money to women. Since they'll make sure the kids eat and get educated.
  14. I saw her live at the Sydney Opera House. She did something I had never seen. She had different members of the orchestra sing a line. It was amazing. Blue Lights in the Basement. The Closer I get to you was the slow jam when I was a kid.
  15. I don't think the made the rent bigger. They just created ore preferred bleacher seats
  16. If we go back to the start the only people who could vote were white male Protestant land owners
  17. The above is a quote from Kelly Carter Jackson's book, We Refuse A Forceful History Of Black Resistance
  18. She is in high school she couldn't afford it she isn't dating
  19. It reminded me Tony's Harding and Nancy Kerrigan although they weren't high school athletes
  20. No there are few bits since bits don't know how to answer questions. Although a few people joined just to promote their business or isy something unrelated to Astrology It's not a business page
  21. The coach and her parents apologised but she didn't. Also the fact that she didn't stop makes it look intentional. This was in my YouTube feed.
  22. I think that just the way of it. I have a FB group of 850 people. Probably about 10 people respond with likes. No that I post gets 10 likes but there are ten people that like a post. I think some years back occasionally a post would get five or six people interacting. For myself I have a bit if fatigue. I used to be online for hours. Now it's minutes. I also have less tolerance for arguments. Upn reflection I talk less overall. Since quite often it seems pointless or of little value
  23. April 16, 1862, President Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. This law prohibited slavery in the District, forcing its 900-odd slaveholders to free their slaves, with the federal government paying owners an average of about $300 (equivalent to $9,000 in 2024) for each Although there have been few reparations to the nations involved, one controversial development dates back to the 1800s. In 1833, the British government agreed to pay £20m to slave owners in exchange for the freeing of their slaves — which would equate to billions in the modern day France went further by penalizing Haiti for the revolution that abolished slavery in its former colony St. Domingue. It levied a huge sum on the island, which crippled it in decades of debt. Former slaves were forced to pay indemnities to former slaveowners in exchange for official recognition as the first black independent nation-state in the Western Hemisphere. Slaves were so valuable their owners were compensated by the Government.
  24. If you killed d a slave you end up having to pay. Whereas today there is no compensation. The following is an excerpt from Homicide Justified: The Legality Of Killing Slaves In The United States And The Atlantic World After 1750, the Barbadian slave code made its way to the British colonial mainland. Clause twenty of the Barbadian law gave masters the right to kill a slave who had run away or misbehaved. Killing a slave for any other reason could be punished with a fine. If a third party murdered a slave, he had to pay double to slave’s value, but if the killing was accidental, the master determined the compensation. Barbadian slaves did not possess the right of self-defense, except to defend their masters. Scholars commonly presume the mainland British colonies adopted the Barbadian slave code wholesale, but Fede found that only South Carolina adopted the homicide part of the code. The other colonies incorporated slave killings into the common law of homicide. In theory, killing a slave was equal to killing a free person and would be punished as such. That means a master would be executed for the intentional killing of his slave. In practice, Fede found that the exceptions swallowed the rule. Murders of slaves that occurred in the course of discipline, insurrection, and self-defense were readily accepted and master acquitted for the killings. Few white men were executed for the killing of a slave in the North American British Empire. After independence, states attempted slave law reform, including the homicide laws. The tendency was to equate the murder of a slave with the murder of a free white man, but the practice allowed for so many exceptions that only a few masters were executed for killing their own slaves. Almost all of these men were outcasts in their own communities. Virginia, South Carolina, and Texas each executed one master. Tennessee executed two men who were not masters. As the nation expanded westward, the slave homicide laws of the new states were like those of the old. American slave law proclaimed in the books that slaves were entitled to the same protections as whites, but in practice the law operated to serve the master’s economic interests.
  25. The only time Black Lives Matter to the General Population was during slavery
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